HJN Content posted on February 3rd, 2008

Bill Lowry Triumphs in the $35,000 Jacksonville A to Z Grand Prix

Green Cove Springs, FL—FEB 3 2007—Statistics say the accuracy of a polygraf ranges between 95 to 98 percent. Today’s $35,000 Jacksonville A-Z Grand Prix presented by Outback Steakhouse, which closes out Week III of competition, witnessed Polygraaf, ridden by classic horseman Bill Lowry, achieving a perfect 100 percent. (Read on…)

Canada’s Eric Lamaze Enjoys Super Sunday in Wellington

WELLINGTON, Fla., Feb. 3 - While sports fans across America were focused on football, Canada’s Eric Lamaze was winning the super bowl of show jumping on Sunday at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Fla. The $50,000 Smart for Life Grand Prix CSI2* closed out week three of the 12-week CN Winter Equestrian Festival, presented by Zimmerman Advertising. (Read on…)

CORTIE WETHERILL, TAKE AWAY WIN AMATEUR-OWNER HUNTER STAKES 18-35 YEARS

WELLINGTON, Fla., Feb. 3-The Grand Hunter ring hosted the $1,000 Amateur-Owner Hunter Stakes for the 18-35-year-old division Sunday at the CN Winter Equestrian Festival presented by Zimmerman Advertising, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. (Read on…)

HOW TO WATCH & LEARN: The Transition from Ponies to Horses and the Leap from 3′ to 3′6″

The pony hunter ring allows the rider to get a real sense of what the judge is looking for in a hunter. Because the classes are smaller, broken into small, medium, and large pony divisions, the rider and the parents can watch every round; i.e. the whole division from beginning to end. So you can see what the judge rewards in the way of conformation and form over fences as well as in the under saddle classes. (Read on…)

Samantha Schaefer takes One-Two-Three in the $25,000 Jacksonville Open Hunter Classic

Green Cove Springs, FL—FEB. 2, 2007—When all the scores were tallied, it was 14-year-old Samantha Schaefer sitting in the top three spots of the $25,000 Jacksonville Jerry Parks Insurance/“Artists” by Timothy Priano Open Hunter Classic held under the lights of the covered arena at the Clay County Agricultural Center in Green Cove Springs, FL. The number one horse of the evening was Lazy Sunday, owned by Keli Colby and piloted by Schaefer. (Read on…)